A 40-year-old man who police suspect struck another man with a crowbar was arrested Friday on suspicion of murder.

The man who was struck, Toshchu Abbad, 45, died Thursday of a skull fracture, according to the island’s chief medical examiner.

Redson John Tommey was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault, murder and possession and use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony, said Officer A.J. Balajadia, Guam Police Department spokesman.

Tommey and Abbad were drinking several nights ago in Barrigada when a fight broke out between the two men, Balajadia said in a media advisory. After Abbad grabbed Tommey’s head and punched him, Tommey allegedly took a crow bar and struck Abbad in the leg and the head.

Abbad “then went to sleep,” Balajadia said. Abbad’s brother later took him to their residence in Mangilao.

Medics on Wednesday responded to the residence and advised Abbad to go to the hospital, but he refused, Balajadia said.

Medics later were called again and took Abbad to Guam Regional Medical City, and then to Guam Memorial Hospital, he said.

Dr. Aurelio Espinola, the island’s chief medical examiner, on Friday said Abbad died of a skull fracture.

Balajadia did not say where in Barrigada Tommey and Abbad were fighting. However, police officers on Thursday night were seen securing the perimeter of a lot marked off with yellow tape at the intersection of Route 10 and Jolene Leon Guerrero Road. The lot was still marked off on Friday.

Jerisha Camacho, 25, a resident of that neighborhood, said police knocked on her door Thursday, inquiring about “something (that) happened last week.”

Camacho said the Barrigada lot was usually full of trash and debris. In recent weeks, workers began to clean the yard, she said.

“I was relieved they finally started to clean it.”

Three or four middle-aged men could be seen working to clean up during the day. Afterwards, Camacho said, they would under a tin roof, talking well into the night.

The men would often linger till around midnight, she said, talking loud enough for her to hear their voices from inside her concrete home.